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| | Nancy Bauer: Beauvoir’s First Philosophy, "The Second Sex", and the Third Wave (Labyrinth, vol.1, no.1/1999) |
 | | Whether or not one finds Marx’s claims about the proletariat convincing, and whether or not one buys the idea that the only alternative to disavowing one’s partiality is to proceed from it, Hartsock’s use of Marx’s model to justify privileging a feminist philosophical standpoint raises certain very difficult questions. |
| | [L]ike the lives of proletarians according to Marxian theory, women’s lives make available a particular and privileged vantage point on male supremacy, a vantage point which can ground a powerful critique of the phallocratic institutions and ideology which constitute the capitalist form of patriarchy (Hartsock, 284). |
| | The idea of a feminist standpoint derives, of course, from Marx’s distinction between the standpoint of the bourgeoisie, whose self-interest blinds them to the truth, and the standpoint of the proletariat, who, Marx famously argues, are structurally in a better position to see things as they really are. |
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